Journal of Rural Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Rural Studies is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment211
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden192
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil179
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England176
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa166
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside154
The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system126
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture124
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion114
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China106
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities94
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide94
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia93
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia89
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level:A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China87
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-1987
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector86
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline84
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK81
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality81
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”80
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)80
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa80
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience80
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers78
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China77
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities75
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures74
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland74
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium74
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya72
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions71
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro61
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations58
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience57
Editorial Board57
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers57
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs55
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms55
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines54
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases53
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition52
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–198251
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar51
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall shock and consumption smoothing in rural China50
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town50
Scholar-institutional entrepreneurs in rural tourism path innovation: the case of Azheke plan in China50
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones50
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France50
Corrigendum to “Climate-smart agriculture & the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis” [J. Rural Stud., 123, March 2026, 104035]49
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification47
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico47
Rural housewives clubs- unlocking the potential of Women's agency in local development in Poland47
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK46
The geography of poverty: Review and research prospects46
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture45
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?45
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?45
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type45
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China44
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms44
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences43
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas43
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective43
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada43
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?43
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark42
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong42
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America41
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration41
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside40
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)40
Unpacking local food politics in scaling sustainable public food procurement39
Editorial Board39
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast39
What typifies participatory art projects in the countryside? A quantitative study of the rural-urban continuum of community-based art initiatives39
Editorial Board39
Policy intervention mechanism on farmers’ intention to promote water-saving irrigation: Evidence from China39
Gendered cognition, intra-household preference divergence, and behavioral choice: How gender differences shape GM maize adoption in smallholder families39
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities39
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research38
Beyond human health – Exploring farmers' perspectives on pesticides in Swiss agriculture38
Editorial Board38
Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ38
Gender difference in time-use of off-farm employment in rural Sichuan, China38
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers37
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies37
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey36
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt36
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction36
How does gender shape the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from Belgium36
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives35
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry35
The rural development trilemma35
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany35
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni35
Diversity evolution pattern of rural settlements and its driving mechanism transition: A case study in Southwest China's karst mountains34
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining34
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions33
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland33
An analytical framework to consider social justice issues in farmland preservation on the urban fringe. Insights from three French cases33
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)33
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective33
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press33
Scaling up cross-village land consolidation while maintaining local legitimacy: Evidence from Zijiao Town, China32
Extensionists as mediators of agricultural skill ecosystems: A study from North India32
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China32
Understanding terraced cropland marginalization in China's mountainous areas: Process, characteristics, and underlying mechanisms32
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU31
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China31
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production31
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking31
Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition31
Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries30
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic30
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns30
End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives30
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming30
Demand for veterinary services in Cambodia: Determining factors and differing roles of service providers30
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden30
Who are to support the aged in rural China? The study of people's willingness to purchase socialized care service and its influencing factors30
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef29
Editorial Board29
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?29
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States29
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia29
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility29
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance29
Challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in Mediterranean countries29
Revealing nested archetypes of cropland abandonment based on social-ecological system theory28
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province28
A cross-domain coupling framework for digital twins in rural regional systems: Insights from China28
Digital rurality: A three-fold model and research agenda28
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden28
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya27
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms27
Post-rural mental health: Developing Nye et al.’s research agenda for mental health in agricultural areas27
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union27
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review27
Home is where the welfare is: Healthcare portability and settlement intentions of rural migrants in China27
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development27
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences27
Enacting rural community resilience: An agency theoretical perspective on an emerging local food community27
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China26
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality26
Stability and long-term strategies for poverty alleviation in China from the perspective of multi-dimensional relative poverty: Nationwide county-level analysis26
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China25
Editorial Board25
Older people and food insecurity in rural places: Invisibility, complexity and sociality25
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach25
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia25
Governing modesty: Platformed urban gaze and rural Chinese housewives on Douyin25
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China25
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China25
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago25
Analysis of rural economic restructuring driven by e-commerce based on the space of flows: The case of Xiaying village in central China25
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia25
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China24
Agricultural tenancies in Scotland: how much does the legislative framework affect the power balance between landowners and tenants?24
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy24
Rural transition in the loess hilly and gully region: From the perspective of “flowing” cropland24
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being24
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 202024
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region24
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania24
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal24
Investigating robot acceptance in UK agriculture23
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China23
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China23
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets23
Reciprocal reconstruction of regulatory and capital power: A dynamic interaction between local governments and land buyers in rural land value capture23
Has farmer welfare improved after rural residential land circulation?23
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China22
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up22
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar22
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau22
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?22
Justifications for farm practices and animal welfare among Norwegian livestock farmers22
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel22
Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers22
State-led commodification of rural China and the sustainable provision of public goods in question: A case study of Tangjiajia, Nanjing22
Effect of China's new rural pension scheme on the consumption of relatively poor households22
Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation – Learning from two case studies in Switzerland22
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas22
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach21
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits21
Role of soil perception and soil variability by smallholder farmers in the low adoption rates of extension packages in Central America21
Editorial Board21
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland21
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability21
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender21
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives21
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation21
Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’21
Effects of digital economy-driven Chinese-style agricultural modernisation--based on analysis of mediating effects and spatial spillovers21
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater21
“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees21
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp21
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework21
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation20
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action20
Corrigendum to “Servant leadership and members' well-being in China's village committees: A multilevel analysis of the serial mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem” [J.20
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations20
Putting access to internet-enabled work in its place: Insights from rural Atlantic Canada20
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism20
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers20
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers20
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming20
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK20
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria20
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network20
Understanding stress factors in farming: A nationwide survey on occupational strain and mental health among Austrian farmers20
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study20
Beyond the idyll: The recreation of rurality within rural consumption space through a new materialism approach in traditional villages in Yi County, China20
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action20
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia19
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration19
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change19
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China19
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system19
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health19
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis19
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning19
Promoting rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas through characteristic plant industries: A comprehensive development framework from Yunnan with cross-regional comparative insights19
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines19
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments19
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies19
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems19
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania18
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons18
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory18
Banditry as rural crime?18
Unveiling the role of early child development in preventing poverty transmission in deep poverty-stricken areas of RuralChina18
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm18
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain18
Follow the rainbow home: Destabilizing urbanormativity and rural gentrification at LGBT pride in rural New York18
Trans in Arcadia: Transgender lives in the countryside and expanding Philo's ‘rural others’ beyond the cis18
Policy discourses on homecare services for rural older people in Ireland: Spatial and age-based drivers of narratives and absences18
Connectivity or proximity planning in rural areas? Accessibility and equity insights from Crete, Greece18
How digital literacy influence rural residents' demand for low-carbon housing renovations?18
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?18
‘The day I killed my cows was the day I walked away’: Mycoplasma bovis, moral economy and moral capital18
The gap between administration and migrants: Terminologies and experiences of urban-rural migration in Japan18
Ageing in place in a rural town in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Deweyan transactional perspective18
“It's such a big ask for a volunteer”: Community transport as a sticking plaster solution to rural transport poverty17
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges17
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in regenerative agriculture17
How does reverse entrepreneurship facilitate community transformation in rural China: Evidence from the Yellow Revier17
Village leadership, social networks and collective actions in indigenous communities: Case of Hani rice terrace social-ecological system in Southwest China17
Attachment to land and its downfalls: Can policy encourage land mobility?17
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